Scholars of coalition politics have increasingly begun to focus on conflict within coalitions. Here we examine the role of coalition agreements in managing intracoalitional conflict. We …
This article investigates the politics of 'defamilialization of care'in four familialist countries– Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain–during the past 15 years. By 'defamilialization of care', we …
D Goddard - European Journal of Political Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While all government portfolios used to be the purview of men exclusively, more and more women are selected to sit around the cabinet table. But under which circumstances do …
This study focuses on the allocation of politicians to cabinet offices in different institutional settings. We argue that cabinet ministers are appointed with the aim of minimizing the policy …
Zusammenfassung Dieses Buch untersucht das Verhalten der etablierten Parteien gegenüber der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in den deutschen Landesparlamenten und …
This book examines environmental policy change in twenty-eight Central and Eastern European and Latin American countries against a background of significant political and …
S Martin - British Journal of Political Science, 2016 - cambridge.org
Parties are not unitary actors, and legislators within the same party may have divergent interests, which complicates the understanding of parties' motivations and behaviour. This …
This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the …
E Linhart - German Politics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Recent coalition theories assume that parties are both office and policy motivated and thus use utility functions that combine both motivations. Although such utility functions may be …